The release from the Deportation Data Project reflects detainments from January 23rd through October 15th of this year. The Savannahian has analyzed the data to determine the most affected communities in the region.

'While this was a disturbing incident, we want to reassure our community that we are actively investigating and have increased patrols in our parks out of an abundance of caution.'

“I had identified that the city had relocated the remains of the Negro Burial Ground to Laurel Grove South, but that there also had been a brief second cemetery from 1844 to 1852, when the Negro Burial Ground got overcrowded,” said Spracher.